With all the hysteria over canceled health insurance policies, actual data and informed analysis helps us see what is really going on.

Those cancellations affect a tiny sliver of the population. The 80 percent insured through employers or Medicare keep their coverage; 15 percent are uninsured. The remaining 5 percent on the individual market received cancellations.

Nobody should pretend this is something new. Insurance companies have been kicking people off their plans for years. A recent study found only 17 percent of individual market subscribers kept their plan two years in a row. 80 percent were canceled annually. These are bare-bones policies that do not meet basic health-care standards.

Consumer Reports called them “junk health insurance,” like purchasing a cheap car that failed a state inspection. Would you drive a car that may not have working brakes?

Those whose policies were canceled will NOT remain uninsured. Through Obamacare, they have access to the insurance marketplace with options that guarantee coverage that actually protects them.

Tax credits and subsidies can lower their premiums to make it affordable. Those 15 percent currently uninsured can now buy insurance at reasonable cost. Obamacare does so much good for real people.